It’s a very useful site, but I don’t get the competition thing. If you want to finish the game fast you speedrun it, not play casually.
For anyone with a Steam Deck, there’s a Decky plugin which shows the HLTB data for a game right on its main page.
That sounds fantastic.
Whenever I’ve used this plugin, the screen jumps around when loading a game, annoying bug.
Had a little bit of fun trying to get their search feature to return no results. Games with no actual end like Ardor obviously return nothin, so they’re not fun. Realized that just about every single game I could think of has an entry on their website. And that all the games I play aren’t obscure enough to be excluded from their record, even if there’s no time displayed.
The only thing that I found that wasn’t on their search, from my testing of random titles, was a pokemon fangame: Radiant Topaz. Everything else I tried was on there. Even a Spanish fangame called Pokémon Iberia (which I haven’t gotten around to because I can’t read Spanish) has a result. Even the short Christmas VN spin-off (prequel-esque story?) Christmas story of Brok the Investigator has an entry, and it’s only been out since December.
Eeeeh, does this post really fit this community?
Also I use it for pretty much any game I’m interested in. It’s a great tool!
I think it does. It is in invaluable tool for me to choose my next game and the farther from release the more datapoints make up the playtimes :)
It was linked in the sidebar of the subreddit, so I guess it fits? Also, probably useful for anyone wanting to know how long it takes before starting a game
I used this when I got mass effect Legendary edition recently. Their 120 hour estimate was a concern. At the rate I play that would be a lifetime.
I used to play through the Baldur’s Gate trilogy every few years. Haven’t done that in a decade because I look at the three hundred hour playthrough time and know it’ll never happen.
Edit: “Trilogy” being what fans called BG1+2 plus the Throne of Bhaal expansion to 2. It’s kind of weird now that there’s an actual Baldur’s Gate 3.
Yeah in theory that’s a 50h game, but I can turn any game with a nonlinear plot into a 500h game, give me a side quest I love, a mini game or an open world that’s interesting enough and I’ll never finish the main quest.
Me with the Saints row reboot. Ten hours in and I just unlocked vehicle customization because I was just driving around and doing side quests all the time.
That’s why HLTB splits playtime into play style categories, depending on if you just want to see credits, if you’re gunning for 100%, or something in between.
Game Pass PC did this too, and I actually kind of liked having it.
You must avoid the Yakuza series at all costs.
Apparently, it takes only 10 hours to beat Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. . Which seems oddly low, considering just how difficult this game is, and that you have to start over if you die, since it’s a roguelike. Though, maybe I just suck. Though, maybe it’s for one successful playthrough, which isn’t that much of a useful metric when discussing roguelikes.
